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list price: $16.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Nov 2008
ISBN:9780889712355
publisher:
Nightwood Editions
Description
From the salmon fishing grounds to the Special Collections library, from the vanishing rural world of pheasant hunting and canning along the banks of the Fraser River to the deck of the Titanic and the famous book collector's tragic fate, Tim Bowling's startling and powerful eighth collection of poems moves seamlessly between the riches of nature and the riches of art.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 15
- Grade:
- 10
Editorial Reviews
Bowling has a powerful elegiac voice that often recalls his childhood in the salmon fishing grounds of B.C. ... His work has an unusual sonic lushness.
--Maurice Mierau, Winnipeg Free Press
Magical, yet very real.
--Prairie Books NOW
The Book Collector is Edmonton-based poet Tim Bowling's eighth collection. Add to that three novels, a collection of interviews edited by him, and the 2007 memoir The Lost Coast, and you've got one industrious writer. He is also one of the most gifted poets in the country.
--Zachariah Wells, Quill & Quire
[Many of the poems] reflect on a past washed with the golden glow of remembrance ... and lament the inevitability of change and decay. There is a Dylan Thomas-like cast to many of these poignant, loping narratives, which remind us that Nothing Gold Can Stay: not wonder ... not times with parents, and not even, perhaps most devastatingly, a way of life and an ecosystem ...
--Janice Fiamengo, Journal of Canadian Poetry
...hauntingly imagined and deftly crafted.
--Owen Percy, Canadian Literature
